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I don't think Opus Dei spends a lot of time discussing Rerum Novarum, honestly.


I dunno, they spent a ton of time talking about how to get rid of the last pope, so who knows which other "Actually believe the teachings of Christ" popes they bad-mouth when they get together?


What do they discuss? There is an Opus Dei church near me and I always wondered what was up


Opus Dei is an extreme reactionary group within the church. Leo XIII was a liberal pope responsible for the social doctrine of the church (this text).

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_Opus_Dei

Personal experience: when I was in high school in my country there was a teacher who was in Opus Dei. He tried to recruit students by leaving them a letter and inviting them to a "scholarship". I got such a letter, I was so excited. The school found out about that and investigated. We're a mixed-race country. The Opus Dei teacher has invited exclusively white students. He had invited top students #2 to #4 in my class by grade, but not #1, who was black.


Meanwhile I mostly interacted with Opus Dei members near Harvard that were Nigerian, Spanish, and Mexican.


Each country has their own racial hierarchy that may not, and usually does not, match yours.


This was the US.


Where they wealthy? That's the only thing the Opus Dei cares about.


> We're a mixed-race country

There are single-race countries?


Depending on how you count, Egypt, Morocco, Bangladesh, North Korea...


i know what you mean, although they're not single-race (i hate using this expression, omg) in a binary way. or at least only if you exclude the minorities in these countries who still make it diverse, be it in a small way.


When I visited an Opus Dei house once for a philosophy lecture they were discussing Plato, the Timaeus in particular.




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